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Nik Hilton  //  www.design4d.co.uk
Young Architect of the Year Nominee 2009, 2010, 2011
Finalist in the British Homes Awards 2009
Finalist in the Design awards 2009

Oct 27 / 10:35pm

Infinity Loop business model

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I put this on our old blog back in 2008 but thought I would highlight again my simple 'Infinity Loop' business model. The model envisages using  charity work, rather than the hugely wasteful competition system, to generate experimental projects. On a global scale this could result in a sustainable business model where financial inequality is rebalanced through targeted charity projects with commercial reasoning.

 

Current society appears to be based on the idea that philanthropy is something that is done once you are financially rich. This often leads to vast amounts of waste in the charitable sectors as money is given rather than earned. What if every company was encouraged to spend a percentage of their profits on charity work but could chose projects which commercially benefited the company? Would the results be greater than the current business/charity model? When Coca-Cola can reach places that vital medical supplies cannot you begin to wonder how that commercial power and intelligence could be better harnessed....

 

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Sep 20 / 2:21pm

An inventive home I visited during Open House weekend

Each year inaccessible buildings in London open their doors to strangers to look around. I visited a few buildings but was particularly taken by Monty Ravenscroft's self-build house in Peckham. Monty is an inventor/film maker who designs large sliding glass roofs and also created lots of inventions within his very space efficient house.

It was like walking around a larger version of our Kinematic Apartment project! There was a draw which turned into a sink, a bath under the bed, a mechanism taken from a land rover which opens the large rooflights and some clever three-dimensional manipulation of space and light to make the house a inventive joy!

http://www.peckhamhouse.com/project.php

Filed under  //  Architecture   Kinematic Apartment   Nik Hilton   Open House   Peckham   Sliding rooflight  
Sep 9 / 2:07pm

Nik Hilton is made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

I have now been officially made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Invited by the Trustee Board for my services to architecture, the fellowship is an international community of over 27,000 achievers and influencers from a wide array of backgrounds and professions.

I look forward to being able to help evolve the debate on sustainable architecture within this prestigious organisation.

http://www.thersa.org/fellowship/the-fellowship

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